http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2013/04/april-14-photo-brief-florida-fights-giant-land-snails-venezuela-2013-election-miss-world-south-sudan/
By Barbara Liston. ORLANDO, Florida | Sun Apr 14, 2013 1:50pm EDT. ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - South Florida is fighting a growing infestation of one of the world's most destructive invasive species: the giant African land snail, which can grow as big as ...
Rising Sea Levels Could Be Slowed By Dealing With Four Short-Term Pollutants ...
http://www.latinospost.com/articles/16669/20130415/rising-sea-levels-slowed-dealing-four-short-term-pollutants-co2.htm
Rising sea levels are expected to begin affecting many coastal cities in the decades to come, and researchers have been scrambling for a way to curb the impending flooding.
Sadly, NASA Says Comet Probably Won't Hit Mars
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57579696/newfound-comet-likely-wont-hit-mars-next-year/
If you were holding out for a completely awe inspiring, wholesome, and scientific collision between Mars and comet C/2013 A1 - called Siding Spring - then you're in for a bit of disappointment.
Ginormous Thirty Meter Telescope finds its home in Hawaii
http://www.dvice.com/2013-4-15/ginormous-thirty-meter-telescope-finds-its-home-hawaii
The Thirty Meter Telescope has been in the works for nearly 20 years. The gigantic instrument (with a mirror nearly 100 feet across) promises to deliver new data about our Universe on an astronomical scale.
Former OC resident wins $150000 prize for restoring Iraq marshland
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-15/saddam-s-blighted-marsh-draws-150-000-goldman-winner.html
Azzam Alwash, an Iraqi immigrant and former Fullerton resident who returned to Iraq in 2003 to lead a marshlands restoration project, has received the Goldman Environmental Prize, a $150,000 prize awarded to six environmentalists annually.
READER SUBMITTED: Students At The Middle School Of Plainville Were Able ...
http://www.standard.net/stories/2013/04/14/davis-high-teams-ready-test-robots-mettle
This year, for the first time, students at the Middle School of Plainville were able to join a VEX Robotics club! Technology Education instructor Kim Coyle, received a grant from the national Technology Student Association (TSA) for $1,200 which provided ...
Planetary Defense Conference to meet (no word from Justice League)
http://www.eurasiareview.com/15042013-nasa-funded-asteroid-tracking-sensor-passes-key-test%E2%80%8F/
It sounds straight out of comic-book fantasy, but a real-life group of concerned scientists - the Planetary Defense Conference - will gather this week at a desert compound with the goal of protecting humanity from one of the destructive forces of the universe: ...
As Orion Test Flight Nears, Focus Turns to Retrieving an Asteroid
http://www.wmfe.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=14299&news_iv_ctrl=1041
April 15, 2013 | WMFE - Kennedy Space Center leaders say they're on schedule for an unmanned test flight next year of Orion, NASA's next vehicle for taking astronauts into space.
Dead harbor porpoise, sun-bathing grey seals mix with tourists in Jersey
http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/dead-harbor-porpoise-sun-bathing-grey-seals-mix-with-tourists-in-jersey/
Dead harbor porpoise, sun-bathing grey seals mix with tourists in Jersey. The Marine Mammal Stranding Center says that people should keep their distance from the sun-bathing seals.
Puerto Rico protects top US turtle nesting site long eyed by developers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/puerto-rico-protects-top-us-turtle-nesting-site-long-eyed-by-developers/2013/04/13/78f7ef34-a45b-11e2-bd52-614156372695_story.html
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico's governor on Saturday signed a law to protect a swath of land along the island's northeast coast that is a top U.S.
Downtown peregrine falcons lay second egg
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2261525/falcons-shut-down-vodafone-mobile-mast
Salt Lake City's famous high-rise couple added a second egg to their nest box on the Joseph Smith Memorial Building sometime early Monday.
Researchers, conservationists urge DNR to reconsider removing turtle from ...
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/5c5c8b2009ba421e9ef8d16359f5c225/WI--Endangered-Turtle
MADISON, Wisconsin - Conservationists and researchers are urging the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to reconsider the removal of a protected turtle from the endangered species list.
Campaigners drop flag under North Pole ice amid "cold rush" concerns
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/international/activists-plant-flag-at-north-pole-to-fight-oil-drilling/article4619915.ece
OSLO | Mon Apr 15, 2013 10:02am EDT. OSLO (Reuters) - Environmentalists have placed a flag on the seabed under the North Pole to urge protection for the region in a rebuff to Russia which planted a flag in 2007 in a symbolic territorial claim.
Bald Eagle And Peregrine Falcon Make A Comeback In Pennsylvania and ...
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/1382/20130415/bald-eagle-peregrine-falcon-make-comeback-pennsylvania-elsewhere.htm
Bald eagle 'Sherkan', the mascot of Swiss ice hockey club HC Geneve Servette is pictured at the Spengler Cup tournament in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos December 29, 2010.
Kudzu-Eating Stinkbug May Attack US Soybeans
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2013/04/15/research.finds.invasive.kudzu.bugs.may.pose.greater.threat.previously.thought
Pesky vines of kudzu native to Asia have crept throughout the southeastern United States in recent decades, and now a stinkbug that feeds on the plant is making an American invasion, too.
Climate change: how a warming world is a threat to our food supplies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/13/climate-change-threat-food-supplies
When the Tunisian street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire on 17 December 2010, it was in protest at heavy-handed treatment and harassment in the province where he lived.
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